Senior engineering roles flood the job market while junior positions vanish. But we still need to train new engineers with foundational skills and decision-making ability, not just rely on AI tools when today's seniors retire.
the whole overall market right now of the fact that if you go out to like the job market right now, you see a blue million like staff, senior engineer positions, data engineer positions, like they are of abundance, but you see little, there always been little to no junior engineer positions, right? But there's like no junior engineer positions. Yeah. And there are, there are not a whole lot like lower mid. engineer positions. And so, at some point, we still have to train and educate and provide that foundational knowledge for the— and that those decision-making skills, right? For those people that are coming up, because at some point, I'm going to retire, right? I mean, at some point, you and I are going to be like, all right, we're, we're out. It's, it's y'all's turn. And they're going to be like, oh, well, ChatGPT will do it for me and Codex will do it for me and it'll be fine.
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